He said he had warned officials in Trumon Timur district of Sumatra’s Aceh province, but nothing had been done to protect the plantations. A herd of eight elephants grazed through the villagers’ plantations twice last week, apparently lured to the rows of palm fruit after their natural habitat was wiped out to make way for the lucrative crop.

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